Any premature death is heart-rending. But the deaths of two children in a traffic accident in the nearby Altamont, Tenn., community is especially tragic.
Eleven-year-old Nicholas Keener and his little brother, 4-year-old Calvin, died in a go-kart accident this past Saturday close to their home in Altamont.
Altamont is the county seat of Grundy County.
The boys had ridden the go-kart down a slope and were attempting to cross a county road near their house. It was then that they were struck by a car coming up a hill. Evidently neither the children nor the driver, a 30-year-old woman who had two of her own children in her car, saw the other.
There is no indication that it was anything other than a horrible, heartbreaking accident, and no charges have been filed.